One Year In: A Studio Retrospective
Twelve months ago we incorporated. A note on what we underestimated and what we got right.
A year ago today the company existed only as a draft articles of incorporation. Today there are six of us, a leased office two doors down from a bakery, and an internal build that you can actually play.
We underestimated: how long contracts take, how heavy localization is even with two languages, how much of the work is just deciding what NOT to do.
We got right: hiring slowly, writing things down early, and refusing to commit to a public release date before we had a vertical slice in hand.